organizing resistance at the intersection of incarceration and the environment

Surviving Toxic Prisons By Clinton “Nkechi” Walker Prisoner, PA Department of Corrections It’s a burdensome task surviving toxic prisons where the effect of the environment on a person’s spirit is like acid dripping on an individual’s flesh, searing the human qualities off a being. Policies and practices are constructed and saturated with inhumane substances that…

Groups Across Florida Join Juneteenth Call to Action Against Prison Slavery Amidst Reports of Lockdowns, Strikes, Walkouts and Possible Resignation of FDOC’s Secretary Alachua County, FL – The Gainesville chapter of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and the national Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) have joined the call, initiated by prisoners in Florida…

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — On the heels of the 3rd Annual Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence, dozens of organizers, community members, and friends and family of currently- and formerly-incarcerated peoples marched through downtown Pittsburgh, making stops at the headquarters of EQT and ending at a power plant belonging to coal utility NRG Energy on the North Side….

Fight Toxic Prisons celebrates Herman Bell’s Release yesterday from the New York state prison system after 45 years, and hopes that we may be able to welcome him out in person at our annual Convergence coming up in June. Herman’s ability to connect the struggles between rural land defense and urban food justice through his…

As people begin to emerge from confinement to find all of their property and gain time gone, they need support to know their efforts have not been in vain and to strengthen the message of solidarity that will carry this movement forward. Support comes in many forms: letters, phone calls, money, legal aid, stamps, writing…

Call for a #Juneteenth2018 Mobilization Against Prison Slavery from SPARC This year we, supporters of #OperationPUSH, are calling on all opponents of mass incarceration and modern-day slavery internationally to honor the Juneteenth holiday (Tuesday, June 19, 2018) with community organizing and direct action. This call to action is inspired by prisoners in Texas and Florida,…

2018 Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence in Pittsburgh June 8 – 11 Location: University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 3900 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 DONATE TODAY TO HELP MAKE THE CONVERGENCE A SUCCESS! Schedule of weekend panels, workshops, presentations, films, entertainment, etc. Register for FTP’s 2018 June Convergence here (so we can help you with food…

Florida Prison Visitation Cuts Held at Bay… For Now [UPDATE: A second public hearing has been announced by FDOC, May 31, 8 a.m., in response to a request by opponents of the cuts. Details about the hearing can be found here and new language for the visitation policy here, which uses more words than last…

Request for Mutual Aid in Raising the Public’s awareness in regard to the movement which seeks to abolish prison slavery and Amend the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution Please post and distribute broadly [The author of this call to action suggested including this video when possible] ATTENTION! Black Activists, Freedom Fighters, and Concerned Citizens….

Horrific Conditions for Livestock Animals in Texas Prisons Exposed [FTP Editors’ Note: This article on prison livestock production was originally published online June 2017, and in the Fall 2017 print edition of the Earth First! Journal. We decided to re-post an updated version, as we felt is was an important and under-reported story. In doing…

Time on Ice: Florida Officials Torture Prisoners With Freezing Strip Cells (2018) By Kevin Rashid Johnson When I first arrived in the Florida prison system on June 22, 2017, and was thrown in solitary confinement in the latest of numerous retaliatory interstate transfers for publicizing and resisting prison abuses, I questioned and discussed with numerous other…

UPDATE 1/26- RASHID IS OKAY! Rashid was visited by one of his lawyers on Friday, January 26th. He is okay and his conditions have improved. There are no specific details yet but he is okay. Your calls were crucial in ensuring that the Florida DOC knows their abuses will not go unnoticed and they WILL…